@mycya4me, I’m participating in a paid research study of EV owners. I was mostly doing stuff for that, eg. recording a 1-2 minute intro video about me, where I live and with whom. It took me about 30 tries to get it down to 2:07…
Also, my kitchen was damaged by a water leak from the unit above and the sheetrock for the walls and ceiling had to be removed. While the walls and ceiling are open, I’m rewiring two of the countertop outlets, moving them to share the dishwasher’s circuit so that I’ll be able to use my induction burner, air fryer and microwave at the same time without tripping the 20A breaker that has everything except the dishwasher on it. Since I rarely use the dishwasher, and never use the heat drying cycle, this should balance the electric load reasonably well. I spent time pulling the dishwasher out.
@xobzoo, I had checked meh.com much earlier so it did not really contribute to the lack of sleep. Wordle, Connections and Strands did tho.
@hchavers Sorry to hear; don’t know you except by username but wishing you good healthy recovery. My wife recently had some weird bad cough thing and brother-in-law recommended something called Umcka as an alternative to mainstream cough meds. Never heard of it before that. Also now we think it might have been RSV she had.
Some people love Summer but too damn hot and too damn much sunshine for me. Winter I don’t mind; actually kind-of fun. Spring and Fall mostly just wonderful. But finally the damn hot Sun now goes down a bit sooner because I hated trying to go to bed with sunlight still outside. And needing to run A/C way too much as I’m still doing tonight.
@pmarin BTW, I live in the US South, I love the nice warm & long days, that is. With it 80+ percent humidity ferret. It wouldn’t be the south without it.
@mycya4me@pmarin@tinamarie1974 Hey I’ll take a free (round trip only) ticket to Antarctica. I have always wanted to visit there. Having worked one winter in NW Canada where it was -40 to -60 at night and -20 during the day was normal, I have the jackets, boots, etc. to stay warm. Please please please?
@mycya4me@pmarin@tinamarie1974 Now I have to come up with a snarky definition of “himidity”. Smelly sweat is probably involved. (typo of “sweat” fixed)
@kittykat9180@mycya4me@werehatrack I didnt realize that vol mods are now pointing out typos to ensure proper grammer utilization. Ill be sure to throw extras in to keep you busy.
@tinamarie1974 Many a choice addition to the lexicon has been made via a particularly fortuitous typo; we’d be all the poorer for not having any at all. On the other hand, while it would be briefly hilarious if they all could be that useful, too much of anything gets old. Typo with care.
@kittykat9180@pmarin Well I was voice dictation on Apple device (iPad/ iPhone) I am not sure which. Well it mis-took what I said & it put ferret… FYI it is a Southern thing. Remember we have a unique way of speaking!
@kittykat9180@tinamarie1974@werehatrack Yes it truly is… I feel sorry for all of you that Don’t have a humidity ferret. I know that y’all feel so deprive! Sorry need to find your own. They are so very Cute & cuddly!
@kittykat9180@mycya4me@tinamarie1974@werehatrack Ferrets are adorable but they make your house smell weird. The people we bought our house from kept them in the back bedroom and we had to replace the carpet. And then my sister had them and even years later anything she brought from there had that odd smell. Not like a regular animal smell, more almost like some kind of soap, kind of like the powdered stuff that used to be in dispensers in public buildings. Maybe.
@Kidsandliz@pmarin@tinamarie1974 For the offer you must go at the beginning of winter to the South Pole station. Then they Don’t get to leave till the End of Winter. There is Zero Resupply or flights No physical contact with anyone in the outside world. Your only link is the Internet. BTW the Winter is very long (6-9 months) only about 50-60 at the station during that time! Summer is 3-4 x that many!
@LaserEyes If your insurance will cover it, get a script for Paxlovid. Two days on that zapped it for both of us back in March. You don’t want to know how much it costs as self-pay.
@LaserEyes@werehatrack I’d agree on the Paxlovid. Tastes nasty but well worth the 5 days of it. I started to feel a lot better after only 18 hours. You have to start it within 5 days of starting symptoms for it to do any good. I had been sick for 3 days and it worked miracles. I hope you feel better soon.
get a script for Paxlovid. Two days on that zapped it for both of us back in March
OTOH, I’ve had COVID twice - the first time I took a course of Paxlovid, the second time I did not. No appreciable difference in severity or recovery time for me. But the Paxlovid caused nasty side effects (lingering bad taste in mouth, severe diarrhea, etc.)
So YMMV.
@macromeh I’m in a high-risk group, so I decided not to take any chances. I agree that the constant aftertaste is nasty, but I’ll put up with it if I can get the bug splatted faster that way.
Not great. My smoke alarm randomly went off in the middle of the night and stopped by the time I got downstairs. No discernable reason why it had turned on.
@chibisara@Fuzzalini The smoke detector in our master bedroom is near the peak of a vaulted ceiling. The step ladder won’t reach and the extension ladder is out in the barn. And it always goes off in the middle of the night.
Occasionally one of our smoke detectors goes off (false alarm) and since they are all hardwired and interconnected, they all go off. Sometimes changing the battery does not help but I’ve discovered in that case it usually helps to blow out the accumulated dust with compressed air.
@chibisara@macromeh I’m renting so my plan is to get someone with a ladder, pull all the batteries out of the ridiculously installed smoke detectors. Then buy some new detectors and leave them around the house uninstalled. On top of bookshelves, etc.
This whole house was designed for someone at least 7 feet tall and I’m tired of it.
Warren said it best So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Saturday night I like to raise a little harm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead, hey
After a 7.5 hour flight that started in the morning (where we woke up at 6 local time) and ended in the morning (going west), we unpacked a bit and crashed around 5 (midnight where we started), woke up around midnight (at home) brushed teeth, then went back to bed and slept until 7.
Need a double hip replacement and certain movements are excruciating. I move in my sleep and hurt myself into wakefulness. Just had an injection in the worse hip today, hoping for better sleep if it works. Working on getting the 1st surgery scheduled, a few extenuating circumstances are delaying it a few months.
I haven’t had much sleep for the past two nights. The surgery I had last Thursday makes it advisable to sleep on my back for the moment, so when I get uncomfortable having not moved for a while, I tend to wake up instead of just rearranging. Add that to the ADD, and I’ve spent way too much time napping. OTGH, the largest cat box got scooped at 1:30AM, and another unexpected cat offence against furniture got cleaned up. All things considered, I’d rather have gotten the extra sleep.
I was busy doing some things and didn’t sleep at all.
@baqui63 please tell us what you were doing?? Inquiring minds want to know? Inquiring minds want to know?
@baqui63 @mycya4me Well, I suspect part of it was spending time at Meh.
@mycya4me, I’m participating in a paid research study of EV owners. I was mostly doing stuff for that, eg. recording a 1-2 minute intro video about me, where I live and with whom. It took me about 30 tries to get it down to 2:07…
Also, my kitchen was damaged by a water leak from the unit above and the sheetrock for the walls and ceiling had to be removed.
While the walls and ceiling are open, I’m rewiring two of the countertop outlets, moving them to share the dishwasher’s circuit so that I’ll be able to use my induction burner, air fryer and microwave at the same time without tripping the 20A breaker that has everything except the dishwasher on it. Since I rarely use the dishwasher, and never use the heat drying cycle, this should balance the electric load reasonably well. I spent time pulling the dishwasher out.
@xobzoo, I had checked meh.com much earlier so it did not really contribute to the lack of sleep. Wordle, Connections and Strands did tho.
On the couch
@somf69 so what did you do, that is to get sent to the Couch?
@mycya4me actually my wife has covid, so Im staying clear of it
@somf69 Yea right. I have heard of stories like that. Now We would like to know the Real story!
Better than the night before. The cough is finally starting to fade away.
@hchavers Sorry to hear; don’t know you except by username but wishing you good healthy recovery. My wife recently had some weird bad cough thing and brother-in-law recommended something called Umcka as an alternative to mainstream cough meds. Never heard of it before that. Also now we think it might have been RSV she had.
Like a baby – up every couple hours
@katbyter With a full diaper?
Some people love Summer but too damn hot and too damn much sunshine for me. Winter I don’t mind; actually kind-of fun. Spring and Fall mostly just wonderful. But finally the damn hot Sun now goes down a bit sooner because I hated trying to go to bed with sunlight still outside. And needing to run A/C way too much as I’m still doing tonight.
@pmarin hey we can get you a ticket to Antarctica for you if you wish. It’s cold, quite cold and dark as it is winter there.
@pmarin BTW, I live in the US South, I love the nice warm & long days, that is. With it 80+ percent humidity ferret. It wouldn’t be the south without it.
@mycya4me @pmarin im w pmarin! Im done w the heat and himidity
@pmarin @tinamarie1974 we can you get you a ticket to Antarctica for you. It is C-O-L-D! even in their short Summer time!
@mycya4me @pmarin @tinamarie1974 Hey I’ll take a free (round trip only) ticket to Antarctica. I have always wanted to visit there. Having worked one winter in NW Canada where it was -40 to -60 at night and -20 during the day was normal, I have the jackets, boots, etc. to stay warm. Please please please?
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pmarin I agree
@mycya4me @pmarin @tinamarie1974 Now I have to come up with a snarky definition of “himidity”. Smelly sweat is probably involved. (typo of “sweat” fixed)
@pmarin now I have to know what a humidity ferret is.
@kittykat9180 @pmarin I noticed that too - but you need to ask @mycya4me.
@mycya4me @pmarin @werehatrack yeah if you are going to come up with definitions for all my fat fingered typos, it will be a full time job.
@tinamarie1974 Not all of them, just the ones that look useful.
@kittykat9180 @mycya4me I’m guessing that a humidity ferret is a dankness so invasive that it gets into everything.
@mycya4me @werehatrack
@kittykat9180 @mycya4me @werehatrack We need someone with a membership to do us a /showme.
@kittykat9180 @mycya4me @werehatrack I didnt realize that vol mods are now pointing out typos to ensure proper grammer utilization. Ill be sure to throw extras in to keep you busy.
@tinamarie1974 Many a choice addition to the lexicon has been made via a particularly fortuitous typo; we’d be all the poorer for not having any at all. On the other hand, while it would be briefly hilarious if they all could be that useful, too much of anything gets old. Typo with care.
/showme a humidity ferret in its natural habitat
@werehatrack
@tinamarie1974 I still have no idea what humidity ferret is. I guess I never will
@kittykat9180 nor do I, but maybe @mycya4me can enlighten us. Maybe its a southern thing?
@kittykat9180 @mycya4me @tinamarie1974 Maybe the showme bot is trying to hint that there’s an impressive tale involved…
@kittykat9180 @pmarin Well I was voice dictation on Apple device (iPad/ iPhone) I am not sure which. Well it mis-took what I said & it put ferret… FYI it is a Southern thing. Remember we have a unique way of speaking!
@kittykat9180 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Yes it truly is… I feel sorry for all of you that Don’t have a humidity ferret. I know that y’all feel so deprive! Sorry need to find your own. They are so very Cute & cuddly!
@kittykat9180 @tinamarie1974 Yes it is VERY much a Southern Thing. I know that @werehatrack has seen them too!
@kittykat9180 @mycya4me @werehatrack
/showme a humidity ferret from the South
@kittykat9180 @mycya4me @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Ferrets are adorable but they make your house smell weird.
The people we bought our house from kept them in the back bedroom and we had to replace the carpet. And then my sister had them and even years later anything she brought from there had that odd smell. Not like a regular animal smell, more almost like some kind of soap, kind of like the powdered stuff that used to be in dispensers in public buildings. Maybe.
@mediocrebot I told y’all that it was cute!
@Kidsandliz @pmarin @tinamarie1974 For the offer you must go at the beginning of winter to the South Pole station. Then they Don’t get to leave till the End of Winter. There is Zero Resupply or flights No physical contact with anyone in the outside world. Your only link is the Internet. BTW the Winter is very long (6-9 months) only about 50-60 at the station during that time! Summer is 3-4 x that many!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me @pmarin if interested you can check out Matty Jordan on Insta. He is a scientist in the Artic. Really interesting
https://www.instagram.com/mattykjordan?igsh=bXZ2d2w0aGczYXVo
@Kidsandliz @pmarin @tinamarie1974 I watched "Joe Spins the Globe on You Tube. It was about his winter at the Southpole.
Covid. Tossed and turned all night. Hot, cold, nauseated, congested, aches and pains everywhere.
Here’s hoping tonight is better.
@LaserEyes Ugh - hope you get better soon.
@LaserEyes I 2nd what Kyeh, said!
@LaserEyes If your insurance will cover it, get a script for Paxlovid. Two days on that zapped it for both of us back in March. You don’t want to know how much it costs as self-pay.
@LaserEyes @werehatrack it can cost zero
https://www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=e5a7e3b5-6f21-4f9a-8560-89b4fc5cf66b&ttype=QRC&utm_source=GOOGLE&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=71700000113050819&utm_content=43700078457121568&utm_term=paxlovid savings&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtsy1BhD7ARIsAHOi4xYkL-16q7fTDrChO5EFHQMbtLXCrlLdc74vnsFn3WxiGzRt1CuItUoaAislEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
@LaserEyes @werehatrack I’d agree on the Paxlovid. Tastes nasty but well worth the 5 days of it. I started to feel a lot better after only 18 hours. You have to start it within 5 days of starting symptoms for it to do any good. I had been sick for 3 days and it worked miracles. I hope you feel better soon.
@Kidsandliz @LaserEyes @werehatrack
OTOH, I’ve had COVID twice - the first time I took a course of Paxlovid, the second time I did not. No appreciable difference in severity or recovery time for me. But the Paxlovid caused nasty side effects (lingering bad taste in mouth, severe diarrhea, etc.)
So YMMV.
@macromeh I’m in a high-risk group, so I decided not to take any chances. I agree that the constant aftertaste is nasty, but I’ll put up with it if I can get the bug splatted faster that way.
@werehatrack thanks everyone. I think I’m through the worst of it now. At least I hope so.
Not great. My smoke alarm randomly went off in the middle of the night and stopped by the time I got downstairs. No discernable reason why it had turned on.
@chibisara maybe you should change the Battery or look for smoke/ fire.
@chibisara Probably just the battery. Mine is chirping, but it’s 12 feet off the ground and I don’t have a ladder that size.
@chibisara @Fuzzalini The smoke detector in our master bedroom is near the peak of a vaulted ceiling. The step ladder won’t reach and the extension ladder is out in the barn. And it always goes off in the middle of the night.
Occasionally one of our smoke detectors goes off (false alarm) and since they are all hardwired and interconnected, they all go off. Sometimes changing the battery does not help but I’ve discovered in that case it usually helps to blow out the accumulated dust with compressed air.
@chibisara @macromeh I’m renting so my plan is to get someone with a ladder, pull all the batteries out of the ridiculously installed smoke detectors. Then buy some new detectors and leave them around the house uninstalled. On top of bookshelves, etc.
This whole house was designed for someone at least 7 feet tall and I’m tired of it.
@chibisara You may need to blow the dust off of it. I had that happen once.
Sleep is for the weak
@Cerridwyn So how weak are you? Eight hours of weak? Or six?
@Cerridwyn Sometimes, sleep is for next week.
Warren said it best
So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Saturday night I like to raise a little harm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead, hey
After a 7.5 hour flight that started in the morning (where we woke up at 6 local time) and ended in the morning (going west), we unpacked a bit and crashed around 5 (midnight where we started), woke up around midnight (at home) brushed teeth, then went back to bed and slept until 7.
Need a double hip replacement and certain movements are excruciating. I move in my sleep and hurt myself into wakefulness. Just had an injection in the worse hip today, hoping for better sleep if it works. Working on getting the 1st surgery scheduled, a few extenuating circumstances are delaying it a few months.
@cbilyak Oh no!
I hope you can get that remedied soon.
I haven’t had much sleep for the past two nights. The surgery I had last Thursday makes it advisable to sleep on my back for the moment, so when I get uncomfortable having not moved for a while, I tend to wake up instead of just rearranging. Add that to the ADD, and I’ve spent way too much time napping. OTGH, the largest cat box got scooped at 1:30AM, and another unexpected cat offence against furniture got cleaned up. All things considered, I’d rather have gotten the extra sleep.